Athens criticised Tirana after a police attempt to remove an alleged illegal construction at a village church rekindled rivalry between the Catholic and Greek-backed Orthodox churches in Albania.
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The Greek Orthodox community in Istanbul seeks to remove the graves of the founder of the self-declared Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate and his successors out of their historic cemetery in Istanbul.
Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I presided over a religious service on Sunday in a historical monastery in northwestern Turkey where only a few walls remain.
"I hope that I will realise my lifelong dream to visit Sevastopol, the city of Russian naval glory," Dmitry Romanovich said. His great uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholayevich, Jr, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army and naval forces, used to be the honorary citizen of Sevastopol.